Volkspark Hasenheide
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| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | Neukölln |
| Created | 1936-1939 |
| Newly designed | Expansion 1948–1953 |
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Hasenheide , Columbiadamm , Lilienthalstrasse, Fontanestrasse, Wissmannstrasse |
| Buildings | Jahndenkmal , open-air cinema, zoo, gymnastics museum |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , leisure |
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| Parking area | 472,826 m² |
The Hasenheide is a park of around fifty hectares in the Berlin district of Neukölln on the border with Kreuzberg . The name of the park goes back to the use of the area as a rabbit enclosure from 1678. The Great Elector went hunting here.
On June 19, 1811, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn opened the first gymnasium in Prussia here . The Jahndenkmal at the northern entrance to the park is still a reminder of the so-called gymnastics father and the fact that the German gymnastics movement began here. In 1886 there was a duel between the officer Armand Léon Baron von Ardenne and the judge Emil Hartwich (see Theodor Fontane's novel Effi Briest ).
Park
geology
Geologically , the Hasenheide lies on the slope of the Teltowplatte , which ends in the park in the Berlin glacial valley . The flat, undulating plateau rises on average around fifteen meters above the level of central Berlin. The Teltowhang changes direction from east to south in the Hasenheide and continues in the - today built up - Rollberge . To the west, the slope runs over the adjacent cemeteries on Bergmannstrasse to Kreuzberg .
Planning and building history
In 1904 the Hasenheide was changed from the then Teltow district to Rixdorf . As early as the 1920s, the Neukölln District Office and the City of Berlin had plans to transform the Hasenheide with its old trees into a public park. Only after the relocation of the Jahn memorial and the creation of a Jahn grove of honor on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 did the construction of a 24 hectare park begin, of which only an eastern section was completed by 1939. In the same year, around 26 hectares of Hasenheide were also acquired by the city of Berlin for 522,987 marks. The former shooting ranges of the Berlin garrison in the Hasenheide were used by the police until the 1930s. During the Second World War , a flak pair was originally supposed to be built in the Hasenheide , which would have added a fourth to the three flak pairs in the Tiergarten , Volkspark Friedrichshain and Volkspark Humboldthain . However, the facility was not built.
After the end of the Second World War, an artificial elevation, the Rixdorfer Höhe , was created in the western part of the Hasenheide from around 700,000 m³ of rubble . It towers above the surrounding ground level to 22 meters and reaches a height of 68 meters above normal zero . When the last shooting range, which was still in use by the US Army until around 1950 , was removed and the entire area had been landscaped according to plans by the Neukölln gardening authority Kurt Pöthig, the Hasenheide park was opened on June 7, 1954. At that time, a plan that had not been carried out provided for an expressway to be built in the area of a former shooting range in the future. The inauguration of the Hasenheide nature theater took place on June 12, 1954 and the unveiling of the monument to the rubble women by Katharina Szelinski-Singer on the Rixdorfer Höhe on April 30, 1955. After increasing damage from vandalism, the memorial, which commemorates the building work of women in Berlin, was moved to the Graefestrasse entrance in 1986. Southwest of the Rixdorfer Höhe is the Rixdorfer Pond , which was laid out in 1991 and can be viewed from two viewing platforms. Since 2009 there has been a tree nature trail, through which an avenue of the trees of the year leads, which is expanded every year by another tree of the year.
leisure offers
In the park there is an open-air cinema , an animal enclosure, a mini golf course , a rose garden, several playgrounds and a dog meadow. In the middle of the park is a 1950s-style kiosk called Hasenschänke . In 2006 a sports area was inaugurated opposite the Columbiadamm summer pool , which contains a course with various obstacles for skateboarders , a place for roller hockey and training baskets for basketball . The Hasenheide is also popular with recreational footballers because of the large open spaces . Numerous football groups have already established themselves, for example the Little Africa Allstar Team , a group of young people from all over Berlin that is open to everyone and that has been meeting regularly for years to play football together, or Berlin's oldest street and park football team, the Red Zombies Neukölln , has been a participant in the Anti-Racist World Cup in Northern Italy for many years . The park is also used extensively by joggers . The Hasenheide has also been the venue for the Neukölln May Days festival since 1966 .
particularities
In the southeastern area of the Hasenheide, near the corner of Karlsgartenstrasse and Fontanestrasse, there is the Jahn oak, which is estimated to be 250 to 300 years old. The tree is protected as a natural monument. The Volkspark Hasenheide is a dedicated public green and recreational area as well as a protected green area , not a garden monument.
The Hasenheide is a focus of the Berlin drug trade (especially with cannabis as an intoxicant ). The Berlin police , who are following up on specific information and reports from the population about combating drug trafficking, warned that a complete ban on cannabis trafficking would lead to an emigration to the surrounding, poorly controllable areas.
On March 17, 2006, a 42-year-old police chief inspector was shot dead while attempting to catch two muggers on the Hasenheide. The two perpetrators were later arrested and the shooter convicted.
On November 4, 2007, a four-hour ritual ceremony was held by the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple e. V. laid the foundation stone for the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple in Berlin , which is to serve as an intercultural meeting place. On January 20, 2009, the Neukölln town planning office issued the building permit. The temple is currently under construction.
Movies
- Berlin: Hasenheide , documentary, 72 minutes, director / camera: Nana A. T. Rebhan, 2010
literature
- Gerd Steins: Where gymnastics was invented ... Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and the 175-year history of the Hasenheide (= Berlin Forum . Volume 6/86). Berlin 1986.
- Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, Department III / Garden Monument Preservation (Ed.), Clemens Alexander Wimmer (author): Parks and Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam . 4th edition. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-87584-267-7 .
- Christian Bahr: Parks in Berlin. The 50 most beautiful green spaces between Pankow and Britz . Jaron, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-89773-420-3 , p. 136 ff.
Web links
- Volkspark Hasenheide and Jahn-Eiche on the website of the Senate Department for Urban Development
- Christian Bahr: Volkspark Hasenheide . Berlin.de, text from: Parks in Berlin , 2013.
- History of Hasenheide in Berlin Hasenheide - A film by Nana AT Rebhan
- Franziska Walser : The lovers are missing . In: Berliner Zeitung , 13./14. December 2008.
- Website of Tierpark Neukölln , zoo and nature center in Volkspark Hasenheide
- Internet agency Rudow-net: Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin-Neukölln
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Hasenheide as a public park . In: Vossische Zeitung , January 31, 1932
- ↑ Gerd Steins: Where gymnastics was invented ... Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and the 175-year history of the Hasenheide , (Berliner Forum 6/86), Berlin 1986, p. 76
- ↑ Erich Ritter: A walk through the history of the Hasenheide , in: Neuköllner Heimatverein, Mitteilungsblatt No. 8 (1956), p. 46
- ^ Matthias Heisig: Berlin-Tempelhof Airport. American history . Edited for the Allied Museum by Gundula Bavendamm and Florian Weiß, Berlin 2014, p. 92
- ↑ Neukölln yearbooks. Administrative report 1950 to 1954, Berlin 1954, p. 124
- ↑ Rixdorfer Teich, Berlin-Neukölln. Pharus-Plan, Rolf Bernstengel, 2010, accessed on August 26, 2012 .
- ↑ State Secretary Schwarzelühr-Sutter honors the "Tree of the Year 2014" press release from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety from April 2, 2014
- ↑ Andreas Scheffler: No hares, no heather, but beautiful. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 25, 2003
- ↑ Where the dealer goes to work . In: Die Welt , June 10, 2008.
- ↑ Drug deals in the stairwell. “Act 20/11” on Sat1 , March 8, 2011
- ↑ Statement by the Berlin police section 55. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Minutes of a panel discussion on April 8, 2010.
- ↑ The widow of the shot police chief inspector Uwe Lieschied explains after the verdict: "15 years for my husband's murderer are nothing" . In: BZ , February 21, 2007
- ^ First groundbreaking ceremony for Neukölln Hindu temple. In: Der Tagesspiegel , November 5, 2007
- ↑ With the blessing of the elephant god . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 30, 2009
- ↑ Lara Sielmann: Berlin's Hindu temple should be ready by the end of 2019. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 26, 2019, accessed September 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Britta Meyer: Interview with Nana A. T. Rebhan about the shooting in 2008. September 15, 2010, accessed on October 16, 2010 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E